10,000 Birds
JUNE 14, 2011
Dirt hawking is a form of falconry that involves hunting rabbits and other small game with Harris Hawks (other hawk species also qualify). One of the primary reasons that these hawks make such excellent falconry birds is because they are one of only two raptor species (the other is the Galapagos Hawk ) that hunt cooperatively.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 19, 2016
You know the famous novel about rabbits , wherein among other things the traveling bunnies find themselves in a warren where everyone is well fed and happy, and that’s a problem. There is bird version of this in the Everglades. This concept should be added to future sci fi constructions of ancient times or lost worlds!
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 26, 2012
Another effect of the bounty of lemmings is other prey species enjoyed a bit of a respite from their position at the bottom of the food chain. Arctic Hare also were largely ignored by predators and bred, well, like rabbits. Foraging Arctic Hare This time of year, April, is when the Arctic Hare are most evident up here.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 22, 2011
I took home a few of the pellets and found that the owls were feasting on grey squirrels and cottontail rabbits. He asked to take the pellet downstairs to do some comparisons to the collections. Oehlenschlager apologized that he couldn’t say the exact species of bat. But the jawbone…that was from a bat!
10,000 Birds
JULY 7, 2020
It is a book with a careful infrastructure, however (even though it doesn’t have an index), with references to one section from another, enabling the curious reader to go down structured rabbit holes, pursuing information on nesting or skeletal systems or feather structure throughout the book. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.
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